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The Beatles (White Album) by The Beatles
The Beatles (White Album) by The Beatles
1968 | Pop, Rock
9.0 (14 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"There are Beatles songs I hate - 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' - but so what? England is where my brain was. I was always too chicken to move here: why would I want to be in competition with all these guys. It was always exciting to see what the Beatles would do next. The good stuff just can't be topped."

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A Place Called Winter
A Place Called Winter
Patrick Gale | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Patrick Gale's newest novel is the lovingly told story of Harry Cane, a man whose sexuality causes him to leave his comfortable life and family in Edwardian England, to a new future in the wilds of Saskatchewan, Canada. Find out why I gave it five out of five stars here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/02/16/tell-me-who-you-love/
  
Derry Girls - Season 1
Derry Girls - Season 1
2018 | Comedy
Nicola coughlan (0 more)
Been watching this a lot lately on episode 4 of season 1 so far I can’t stop laughing it’s hilarious 4 Derry girls and some boy from England living in 90s Ireland and the mischief they get up to school priceless at some point I will watch both seasons 2 and 3 and hope they are just as funny
  
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CKD (37 KP) rated Still Me in Books

Dec 7, 2018  
Still Me
Still Me
Jojo Moyes | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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8.7 (31 Ratings)
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Full Disclosure - this was an unedited, pre-release Goodreads win.

This is book 3 in the "Me Before You" trilogy. Not sure if there will be another one in the series. This book picks up Louisa's (Lou) story after she stops caring for Will Traynor and dealing with her emotions and feelings afterward. It continues with her relationships built from the previous book, "After You". In this book, Louisa reunites with Nate in New York working for a wealthy family as an assistant to the wife. She discovers that, while this life in NY is totally different than her life in England, she really enjoys it but misses home and her family. She is seeing everyone around her (both in NY and England) moving on with their lives and, by the end of the book, it is her time to move on.
  
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Lirahlu (37 KP) rated The Buried Giant in Books

Mar 15, 2018  
The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
7
7.6 (10 Ratings)
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I'm struggling between giving this a 6 or a 7. I settled on 7 because it's not necessarily entertaining, but 100% thought provoking. Some of the metaphorical journeys were difficult to unravel, but the allegorical shaping of the tale set in post Arthurian England was intriguing. I found that once I started the novel, I had to find out how it ended no matter what.
  
Johnny English (2003)
Johnny English (2003)
2003 | Comedy
5
6.2 (9 Ratings)
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Early noughties (2003?) Rowan Atkinson vehicle, with Atkinson portraying the only spy England has left following a bombing - probably the most inept of spies there is. Imagine James Bond. Now imagine everything he did went wrong.

You've more or less got Johnny English.

Also starring Natalie Imbruglia and John Malkovich, the plot of this takes in stolen Crown Jewels, Johnny's attempts to regain them, and a coronation.
  
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Nancy Bilyeau recommended The Concubine in Books (curated)

 
The Concubine
The Concubine
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"A novel set in Tudor England that continues to move me on each reading—a beautifully written and emotionally complex book about Anne Boleyn that is courageous enough to resist easy explanations of the English queen’s appeal and creates a woman who could change the course of history with intelligence, style, and nerve tinged with recklessness, and driven by a dark ambition that eventually devoured her."

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Lady Mechanika, Vol. 3: The Lost Boys of West Abbey
Lady Mechanika, Vol. 3: The Lost Boys of West Abbey
Joe Benítez | 2017 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics, Young Adult (YA)
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Quite an improvement over the previous volume! I could actually feel the grime and coal soot from the streets of Victorian England! It had a Dickens feel to it, with some darker, steampunk aspects to it! It was good enough to maintain my interest for the entirety of it, as well as keeping me on board for the new volume, LA DAMA de la MUERTE!

#goodtimes!
  
Elementary  - Season 5
Elementary - Season 5
2016 | Drama
Shinwell Jackson and the gang SPK.

That's the main through-line (for want of a better word) of this season of CBS's modern interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, still set in the States instead of in England, and with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu still in the joint lead roles of Sherlock and Watson.

Basically, it's become the televisual equivalent of comfort food by this point.
  
Goodreads: Book Reviews
Goodreads: Book Reviews
Book, Social Networking
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8.8 (453 Ratings)
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Easy to track books youve read, want to read or are currently reading.
Great way to keep track of books you have at home or want to buy by makihg multiple shelves.
Love the challenge to motivate you to read a number of books per year. Can follow other people to find out about other books that might interest you.